Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, who was National Finance Co-Chair for Christie’s campaign, says Trump is a “dishonest demagogue who plays to our worst fears”.
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At a rally outside the Georgia Capitol, Cruz went after Trump’s positions on immigration and gun control, criticized his ethics and hammered him for his frequent use of profanity.
Republican rivals Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz pounced, trying to slow Trump’s momentum going into Super Tuesday.
“Say, ‘This is my future, this is my kids, this is my grandkids, this is my country, damn it!'” a visibly stirred Cruz said, imploring Georgians to vote with a rare display of profanity. At the same time, these brute force attacks are hard to square with the rest of Rubio’s campaign, which has largely been deferential to Trump.
At a campaign rally in Georgia, Cruz said a Trump victory would doom the party’s chances of winning the White House. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is focusing his efforts on his home state and its 155 of the roughly 600 delegates at stake Tuesday.
Racism is the biggest problem in the Republican Party and their hate for President Obama because he is mixed with black is obvious in their daily rhetoric.
On Sunday, in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week”, he suggested that Trump’s unreleased tax returns could show “business dealings with the mafia”.
Trump, a part-time resident of Palm Beach, received 44%, well ahead of Rubio (28%), Cruz (12%), Kasich (7%) and Carson (4%).
“If you want to stop the Trump train”, he said, “the only way to do this is to beat him”. Who knows, maybe it’s the case that Mitt Romney is richer than Donald Trump.
Trump declined to predict he will lock up the nomination come Tuesday but predicted, “We will do very, very well”.
Among Democrats, South Carolina was a moment for Clinton to wipe away bitter memories of her loss to Barack Obama there eight years ago. According to CBSNews the Republicans have an opportunity to win about half of the 1,237 delegates needed for the nomination. And it was the media who was at fault, since it loved both the good ratings Trump brings and the inevitable Hillary Clinton general election win when he ends up the nominee.
Rubio, asked about Florida, said “we’re going to win Florida”. The backing – which Mr Trump had worked several weeks to obtain – flooded the news cycle, just as the media was questioning whether Senator Marco Rubio had damaged the tycoon at Thursday night’s Republican debate.
As the race shifts to the South, the Democratic contest will now feature states with larger percentages of African American voters – especially in Georgia, where they made up just over half of those voting in the Democratic primary in 2008. Moderates tend to gravitate toward Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
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“You get up, you go to the polls, and you vote!” he said. By more than three to one, they believe it will be better for the party to have a nominee before the party convention, and 58% think that they will have one.
